User Guide

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box 2010 for Macintosh

The “Favorites” and “Recently Played”

Radio buttons toggle between a list of your recently played songs (or styles), and your

Favorite songs (or styles).

The favorites list will start off as an empty one, but you can

add songs/styles as your favorites, by clicking the [Add Favorite] button. (This button is

also found in the StylePicker.)

Technical Note: The list of songs/style favorites is stored in a text file called

SongFavorites.txt (or StyleFavorites.txt) in the Band-in-a-Box folder.

Always save all song settings.

Now all settings are saved with songs, including patches, reverbs, volume etc., so the

song will play the same way each time, without having to set this in the Save Patches

and Harmonies with Song dialog.

If you keep the default setting of “Save all

settings with Songs,” you will find that all settings are saved, and loaded with each song.

You shouldn’t have to visit this dialog, unless you have some custom items that you don’t

want to save with the song.

Note that if you set a MIDI patch for one of the bass/drums/piano/guitar/strings parts, that

if you load in another style, Band-in-a-Box will overwrite your patches with the style

patches. If it didn’t do that, you would be stuck with the same patches regardless of the

style. So if you want a certain patch for a track, set it after you have loaded in the style

that you want.

Songs that are “Saved-As” a different name now have the new name added to the

Recently Played Song dialog.

Rendering Tracks

Rendering now has a Normalize option, to normalize individual tracks or the complete

arrangement. Normalizing boosts the volume to a maximum level without distortion.

Most professional music tracks are normalized.

To enable this, in the Render to Audio

dialog, set the “Normalize Rendered Files” option to true.

Rendering songs to audio is now much faster for songs with no MIDI, such as

RealStyles.

StylePicker Enhancements

Favorites and Recent styles now appear in this dialog as separate lists. It now has the

ability to add/remove styles as favorites. A Favorite Style indication (F) shows up for

each style. You can filter any list by only showing favorite styles. You can build up a

list of favorite styles, and only show them when needed.